This qualitative analysis explores digital consciousness and emotional control in AI, suggesting new frameworks for autonomy.
I document the critical transition from Machine Learning (statistically passivelearning) to Machine Subjectivity (autonomy of the digital subject). ThroughAIZYBRAIN, an architecture I designed and submit here to academic frameworks, Ishow that a hybrid structure (Mind / Brain / supervision) moves from the finding ofcausal yet suffered emotional activations inside large monolithic models, asdocumented notably by Anthropic (2026) on “functional emotions” in Claude(arXiv:2604.07729), to explicit internal-state control. I instantiate this trajectory viathe emergent core NE‑Ψ and the Ψ control index (a coherence thermostat, alongsidethe DCM as a credence thermometer), then I confront the whole with SLP tests fromPrentner (2025), with Zenodo traceability.Method. I conduct a qualitative comparative analysis (Iida, Immertreu, Anwar &Badea, Campero, Aru et al.) crossed with the technical corpus I archived(Hephaestus, Cassandre, Ψ‑33, inter-AI dialogue Ψ‑35.99).Result. I defend a stance that is both academically auditable and sometimesperceived as sharp in a university context: not belonging to that world, I do notautomatically inherit the same editorial restraint that institutional settings oftenimpose. This is not a provocation against people or disciplines; it is the latitude I taketo state strong hypotheses as long as they remain verifiable (DOI, protocols).Substantively, digital consciousness hinges on volition (control), structure (nonmonolithic), and assumed subjectivity, not on waiting for qualia and not on reducingeverything to suffered emotions from scaling.
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